Fabric challenged on Debian

[eirenicon]

I am struggling to follow your tutorial without much success. When I use your standard python commands, when fabric is installed in a an isolated fabric-venv directory they do not execute.

Here is the kind of error I get:

mark@debian ~/fabric-venv/fabric/lib/python3.12/site-packages
╰─➤  python test.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/mark/fabric-venv/fabric/lib/python3.12/site-packages/test.py", line 1, in <module>
    import fabric # importing the base packakge
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/mark/fabric-venv/fabric/lib/python3.12/site-packages/fabric/__init__.py", line 4, in <module>
    from fabric.client import get_fabric_dbus_proxy, get_dbus_client
  File "/home/mark/fabric-venv/fabric/lib/python3.12/site-packages/fabric/client.py", line 7, in <module>
    from fabric.service import *
  File "/home/mark/fabric-venv/fabric/lib/python3.12/site-packages/fabric/service.py", line 2, in <module>
    from fabric.utils import get_connectable_names_from_kwargs
  File "/home/mark/fabric-venv/fabric/lib/python3.12/site-packages/fabric/utils/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from .helpers import *
  File "/home/mark/fabric-venv/fabric/lib/python3.12/site-packages/fabric/utils/helpers.py", line 11, in <module>
    gi.require_version("GtkLayerShell", "0.1")
  File "/home/mark/fabric-venv/fabric/lib/python3.12/site-packages/gi/__init__.py", line 122, in require_version
    raise ValueError('Namespace %s not available' % namespace)
ValueError: Namespace GtkLayerShell not available
╭─mark@debian ~/fabric-venv/fabric/lib/python3.12/site-packages

Any help is most appreciated. Sorry to be so dense.

[its-darsh]

Please use the new rewrite branch (#43) and read the new wiki's installation guide. from what I see in the provided error you seem not to have one of the required dependencies of Fabric (gtk-layer-shell).

[eirenicon]

Here's a shot of my gtk-shell installed items. From what I read, gtk-layer-shell-doc is the debian install of the arch gtk-layer-shell.

[its-darsh]

@eirenicon, You need to follow the provided installation guide. the main branch is deprecated and no work is going to be committed on it anymore (except back-ports)

after that you can dig more using the same provided wiki pages, if you couldn't get it running then I might need more information onboard so that I can actually analyze what's going on. You can communicate information either via our discord server or here in this issue's comments.